Society is always wrong, and you are always right You might read this article's title and come up with a lot of labels to describe me. Misanthrope. Weirdo. Freak. If I'm being honest, I have been called a lot of those things before- in fact, I even embrace it. There's a lot to dive into here. Peter Thiel, the libertarian tech billionaire, once spoke of the high rates of autism amongst some of the most successful people he's ever met- Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and even himself. He gives a delightful explanation of why these people are the ones that changed the world in unfathomable ways - autists don't conform to social pressure the way most 'normal' neurotypical people do. If a normal person proposed a crazy idea, like starting a private space company to compete with NASA(SpaceX), he would've been laughed at, and would have caved in to the social humiliation and quit before even trying out his idea on his own. This person probably did all the right th...
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